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Dundrum brews Starbucks deal

DUNDRUM Town Centre has joined the race to snare the country’s first Starbucks coffee house, writes Brian Carey.

The owners of the country’s largest shopping centre are in advanced negotiations with the iconic American coffee chain and an outlet is expected to be up and running at the centre by the end of next month.

Separately, two of Dundrum’s most high-profile tenants, the Swedish clothes chain H&M and the Spanish retailer Zara, are ready to locate at the new Whitewater shopping centre in Newbridge, Co Kildare. Those stores will be the first outlets for either chain outside of Dublin or Cork.

Starbucks, which has almost 10,000 coffee houses across the world, has already announced that it plans to site its first coffee house on Dublin’s College Green. However, Dundrum may now usurp the city centre location. The chain plans to develop a “third place” cafe — a lounging-style coffee house — in